New Zealander’s case to co-host the multi-billion dollar international astronomical project, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), has moved another step closer with the October launch of AUT University’s High Definition Radio Telescope in Warkworth. The 12 m radio telescope is a prototype designed to link with powerful supercomputers processing simultaneous observations over large distances, a […]...
Whining in second gear, my car shudders over the Crown Range and into the heartland of Central Otago. With dozens of dizzying switchbacks behind me, I enter a spare and dramatic landscape pilled with tussock and dusted with spring snow. Above the snowline, low-lying vegetation clings to the hillside and the structure of the Alpine […]...
Every Saturday in cities and suburbs, small towns and remote country districts, greens are mowed and rolled, mats put out, coins tossed, bowls delivered, scores kept, tea made. Enjoyed in New Zealand by 91,000 players, bowls ranks in popularity ahead of rugby or cricket and is capturing a new generation....
It looks endearing but the rabbit’s voracious appetite means that, in some parts of the country, it is more destructive than any other introduced pest. Its resistance to environmental stress and its remarkable reproductive capacity makes it almost impossible to control....
Both Darren Hughes and Nathan Guy were destined for a political career from a young age, one by family tradition, one by precocious ambition. They go head to head for a second time in Otaki, the closest-fought electorate in the last election and a revealing snapshot of the national outcome....
As I look out on the contours of Makara peak from my home in Karori, at the western edge of Wellington, the springtime bloom is gathering weight and colour. The blustery winds of the equinox create a fast-moving cloud life that casts across the hills an alternate deepening and a heightening of the predominant cadmium […]...
